Eduardo Mendieta is Professor and Department Chair of Philosophy at the State University of New York, Stony Brook. He is the author of The Adventures of Transcendental Philosophy (2002) and Global Fragments: Globalizations, Latinamericanisms, and Critical Theory (2007), and recently co-edited Pragmatism, Nation, and Race: Community in the Age of Empire (2009). Mendieta is co-editor of two forthcoming SSRC volumes on secularism and religion: The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere and Habermas and Religion.